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     William Ryther was christened on 3 November 1616 in Finchampstead, Berkshire. He was the son of William Ryther.

     William Ryther was christened on 22 April 1631 in Alne, Yorkshire. He was the son of William Ryther (of Alne).

     William Ryther was christened on 14 December 1628 in Finchampstead, Berkshire. He was the son of John Ryther and Mary Clarke.

     William died before 27 October 1575 in Eversley, Hampshire. He was buried on 27 October 1575 in Eversley.

     William died circa 1589 in Finchampstead, Berkshire.

     Sir William Ryther was born circa 1379 in Yorkshire. He was aged 60 at his mother's death in 1439.. He was the son of Sir William Ryther and Sibyl Aldeburgh.
     He was a knight in 1405. Pardoned for treason and felony and forfeitures arising therefrom was granted to William Rither, son of Sir William Rither on 8 Aug 1405, possibly on account of some part in the [Scrope Percy] rebellion of the previous May.
     Sir William Ryther and Sir William Ryther were mentioned in a deed dated 6 March 1415/16. On March 5 1415/6 Wm Ryther kt. senior and Wm Ryther kt. jr. witnessed a deed: By Richard Redemane, knight, and Robert Broun, chaplain to Brian de Stapilton, knight, of the manors of Querneby and Carleton by Snayth and lands and tenements in Farlyngton co. York, all of which the grantors had lately by the feoffment of the grantee. Witnesses William de Ryther, knight, the elder, William Ryther, knight, the younger, and others.
     Sir William Ryther married Maud or Matilda de Umfraville, daughter of Sir Thomas de Umfraville and Agnes Unknown (Umfraville), before 1421 in Yorkshire, England. Cokayne suggests that she must have been his second wife as she was only 28 in 1421. Jones (p.48) states that he married Constance, daughter of Sir Ralph Bygod of Settringham ERY and was High Sheriff 1478.. William was appointed Commissioner in Yorkshire on 5 September 1424. He served on sundry commissions in Yorks, 1424-40; Knight of the Shire, Yks Jan 1425/6; sheriff of Yks 1426, 1430 1434 & 1438. It is presumably he who was sheriff of Lincs 1429.
He was appointed in a commission to inquire in Yorks, as to the concealment of land, serv. and feudal incidents from the King on 5 Sep 1424 . In the parliament of Feb 1425/5, he represented co. York , and in Dec. following was appointed to the office of Sheriff, which he also filled on three other occasions, in 1430-1, 1434-5 and 1438-9. He was also sheriff of Lincs in 1430 . At the end of his last term in office for Yorks, he did not conclude the rendering of his account, and for this Harewood, Rither and a messuage in Scarcroft were seised into the King's hands .
Rither was appointed commissioner de w.f. for the district between the Ouse, Aire, and Ure in the west riding on 16 July 1433, and this was followed by his inclusion in a commission of o.t. on 6 Aug, and in a commission to del. York gaol of Ralph Greystoke of Thorp Arch on 7 Nov. He was a commissioner of array for the east riding in July 1434 and on 17 Dec 1435, was included in a commission issued as a result of the petition of the then Earl of Northumberland for the restoration of certain lands forfeited by his grandfather. On 29 July 1438, he was granted exemption from jury service as sheriff, collector of subsidies, escheats or other royal official, and this marks the end of his career.
He was almost certainly involved in Archbishop Scrope's rebellion in 1405, but was pardoned and avoided forfeiture. He enjoyed an extremely active administrative career: four times Sheriff of Yorkshire [5,9,13, & 17th years Henry VI = 1426-7, 1430-31, 1434-5, 1438-9], he also served a term as Sheriff of Lincolnshire and represented Yorkshire in the 1426 Parliament. Harewood and Ryther were both seized by the Crown after he failed to render his account following his final period as Sheriff, but he resolved the issue successfully before his death.
     Deed poll, quitclaim dated 29 Sep 1427 between 1) Wm. Franke. Hen. Chambre. John de Thwates. Wm. Dutton; & (2) Wm. de Ryther, kt.
(1) Quitclaim to (2) all right in premises had from (2) in Alforde (Lincs.).
Witnesses.: John Langton, kt., Wm. Normanvill, kt., Hen. Vavasour, John FitzHenry, Thos. Broket, etc.
At Abbyrforth, Michaelmas, 6 Hen. VI. Seals missing; 3 tags. Parch. Latin.
     Special assize roll and file, William Ryther and others v John Vavasour 8-9 Hen VI [1429-1430].
     Commission of oyer and teminer to Richard, earl of Salisbury, Henry, Earl of Northumberland, William Babyngton, James Strangways, John Ellerker, Richard Hastynges, kt; William Ryther knight; John Constable esquire, Thomas Clarell, Henry Vavasour and John Thwaytes and two or more of them including either Babynton or Strangways, on complaint by William, Abbot of St Mary's, York, that (several) other malefactors, broke into the park of the said abbot at Spaunton ... 6 August 1433.
     A William Ryther of London Esq. pledged a document to Marton Priory c.1436? re a wood called Craven Close. [E.C.P. 73 98 - Monastic chancery proceedings Yorkshire - this could refer to his son
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     On 29 July 1438 an exemption for life of William Ryther, knight, from being put on assizes, juries or inquisiitons, and from being made collector or assessor of taxes, sheriff, escheator, constable, bailiff or other officer of the king, was granted.
     On 6 Nov 1438 William Ryther, knight, was summoned for not appearing before William Babynton and his fellows, late justices of the bench, to answer William Lassels, clerk, prebendary of Wyghton, touching a plea of 8 pounds. He was Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1439. He was described as a living child of Sibyl Aldeburgh, aged at an unknown age.
     Exchequer documents: Accounts for Manors of Ryther (Ryder) and Harewood, held by William Rither, as in 50/36. 18-20 Hen. VI [1439-1441]; also for lands in Scarcroft.
     On 28 June 1449 Thomas Elleker of South Cave ... to answer William Ryther, knight, touching a plea of debt for 10/6/8.
     William died on 1 October 1440 in Harewood, Yorkshire. At his death he was seized of half of Harewood castle and manor, and of the manors of Rither, Spofforth, and Scarcroft in Yorks, and also of the manor of 'Colecotes, Lincs" His heir was his son William aged 35.
     Sir William Ryther was the subject of an Inquisition Post Mortem held between 1440 and 1441.

     Sir William Ryther was born circa 1408? In Ryther, Yorkshire. He was aged 35 at his father's death. He was the son of Sir William Ryther and Maud or Matilda de Umfraville.
     Special assize roll and file, William Ryther and others v John Vavasour 8-9 Hen VI [1429-1430].
     Sir William Ryther married Elizabeth Gascoigne, daughter of William Gascoigne and Jane Wyman, before 1435. Gascoigne pedigree states Elizabeth daughter of Wm Gascoigne & Jane married Sir Wm Ryther & her sister Ann married Richard Redman.
     As William Rither the younger he was joint grantee of a wardship in Nov 1435.
     Sir William Ryther married Eleanor Fitzwilliam, daughter of John Fitzwilliam and Margaret Clarel, circa 1437. 1584/5 & 1612 visitation of Yorkshire: Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough - Elinor daughter of Sir John & Margaret Fitzwilliam, Lord of Emley married Wm Ryther of Ryther kt [1571 mss].
     Exchequer documents: Accounts for Manors of Ryther (Ryder) and Harewood, held by William Rither, as in 50/36. 18-20 Hen. VI [1439-1441]; also for lands in Scarcroft. Sir William Ryther was described as a living child of Sir William Ryther, aged at an unknown age.
     William, son and heir of William Ryther is granted a certificate of homage 1 Dec 1440.
     In 1445 he was granted market fair & free warren at Harewood by patent.
     Imprimus and confirmation, by advice and assent of the lords spiritual and temporal in the Parliament held at Westminster in the king's firt year, to William Ryther, knight and Richard Redman, esquire, tenants of the manor of Harewood, cdo. York, of letters patnet dated 4 Dec, 8 Henry V, nspecting and confirming letters patent dated 12 Nov 8 Henry IV.
     Lincolnshire: Grant description and date: subsidy on lands, wages and fees granted by Parliament 1450 June 5 - Receipts and particulars of account for the first collection, roll of 4 mems. Particulars of the account of William Ryther, former sheriff, in a leather pouch. Estimated date of document: 1451 Nov 8 or later.
     Debtor: William Ryther, knight [held part of a fee in Ryther [Barkston Ash Wapentake] and Leeds [Skyrack Wapentake, W.R.Yorks], Creditor: John Thirsk of York, merchant. Amount: 300m. of legal English money. Before whom: Richard Wartre, Mayor of York; John Sherwood, Clerk. 1454 Nov 8.
     Sir William Ryther was mentioned in a deed dated 9 January 33 Henry VI 1454/5. The property was at Parlington. He witnessed deeds relating to Fenton church in 1457.
     His inclusion in the commission of treasons etc. Dec 1460 proves him a Yorkist.
     Sir William Ryther made a will dated 20 June 1475 in Ryther. 20 June 1475, I lord William Ryther of Ryther, knight, ... to God & Blessed virgin Mary, to be buried in my parish church of Ryther. I leave to the rector of my church aforesaid for my forgotten and imperfectly paid tithes 20 sh. Item, I leave to the fabric of the cathedral church of blessed Peter, York, 20 sh.
Item. I leave to the brothers of the Order of St Francis in the City of York 20 sh. Item, I leave to the other brothers in the said 6/8 to each of their Houses.
Item, I leave all the cloths and tiles within my lordship of Ryther to the aforesaid church for the building of a belfry.
Item, I leave to Johanna Ryther my daughter, as part of her marriage portion 'le frer hag' with all appurtenances ... to the said Johanna a boat ...
Item I will that my feoffees pay to the afsd Johanna my daughter from the rents of my maner at Cottis, for her marriage honorably made ...
Item, I leave to Robert Ryther my son, knight all the convenient necessaries in the bakehouse, the brewhouse and the maltkiln, etc. a large brass pot and three glasses?, a green hanging of 'tapestre work', two featherbeds, two chests, 1 cloth of twill, two towels of twill, four cloths of linen for the table in the hall, one trotting horse.
I leave to Elionora my wife the third part of all my goods, movable and fixed "tertiam partes" I will that the afsd Elionora have the feoffment and fealty promised by her friends on the day of our wedding. ...
The residue of all my goods not above bequeathed ... to my executors ... as seems best to them...
Executors - John Nevill of Leversage Esq, William Ryther my son, & Sir John Stodfield vicar of Brayton. Guy Farefax supervisor. Witnesses Master Robert Ryther Rector of Ryther, Sir John Bykerton chaplain, Wm Snell & Nicholas Holgate.
     William died on 19 July 1475 in Ryther, YKS. He was the subject of an Inquisition Post Mortem held after 19 July 1475. He was buried in All Saints, Ryther. Effigy at Ryther church - altar tomb with sides richly panelled, the figure of a knight accoutred in martial habit as worn in the era of the Wars of the Roses. His gorget is of mail and his collar of white rose rayonee, or, and a sun in splendour, being the badge of Edvward IV. His head reclines upon his helmet, from which the crest has been cut. His right foot rest against a dog, collared and beneath his left is a talbot, while sword and daggar are on either side. Three sides of the tomb have been beautifully sculptured, that on the north having the figures of four knights and four ladies, while there are three ladies on the west and three knights on the east side. It commemorates the "hero of Towton", Sir William Ryther, Kt.

     He provided tyles, bricks & slates to build the tower of Ryther Church in 1476.
     His will was proved on 14 October 1476 in the Prerogative Court of York.

     Sir William Ryther was born before 1360 in Yorkshire. In 1396 Sir William Ryther is described as nephew & heir of Sir John de Toutheby. Son & heir of Robert according to the 1491 pedigree.. He was the son of Robert Ryther Lord of Ryther and Margaret Totheby.
     Sir William Ryther married Sibyl Aldeburgh, daughter of Sir William de Aldeburgh and Elizabeth de Lisle, circa 1379.      
Sir William Ryther paid the poll tax in 1379 in Ryther, Yorkshire. Barkeston, Rythir: Willelmus le Ryther, Esquier & uxor 6/4. He was listed as an "Esquire of the less estate".
     He joined in a Yorks recognisance in 1381; was a commissioner of inquiry there 1384 & 1390, and collector of taxes 1395 & 1398.
     He was of Ryther Castle, Lord of Scarcroft, 1392 Lord of a moiety of Harewood. He obtained Harewood by a fine (purchase) from Thomas Thwates and William Barker the connection being through his wife Sybil de Alburgh as shown by the inquisition post mortem of Robert Ryther (6 Hen VII). It mentioned that he died seised of a moiety of Harwood in tail male, by the gift of Thomas Thwates & Wm Barker, made by way of fine, with the King's licence to one William Ryther, kt. & Sibyl his wife, thereof in tail male, with remainder in default to her right heirs, he being [great grandson]. Note that the Barkers had Scarcroft before the Rythers.
     Sir William Ryther and Sir Bryan de Stapleton were mentioned on 18 October 1393. Sir William Ryther was licensed for a chauntry in Alford church on 18 July 1396 in Alford, Lincolnshire. Sir William Ryther, kt. paid 20 marks to the King and power was granted to ... assign a rent .. issuing out of the manors of Toutheby and Rigsby, for a chaplain to say mass for the soul of Sir John de Toutheby, knt [who was apparently living in 1376]. Sir William Ryther is described as nephew & heir of Sir John de Toutheby. The chantry is for the soul of Sir John Toutheby, Knt. his son Robert, and his wife Joan, and for the good estate of Sir William Ryther, Knt, Joan his wife and the children of Alianore wife of Sir John de Toutheby Knt.
     Sir William Ryther was mentioned in a deed dated 1397 in Saleby, Yorkshire. William Ryther gave 20 marks for license to found a chantry in the church at Alford in Lincolnshire, for the soul of John Totheby? of Alford.
     Robert Barkeston of Barkeston & William de Ryther, knight, were both summonded at Westminster June 16, 1398 for not appearing to answer John Hyldyard, clerk, touching a debt of 20 pounds. He was licensed for an oratory in his house at Towthby on 20 November 1399 in Alford, LIN. The licence was granted to Sir William Ryther, kt., and his wife to have mass said "infra manerium de Towthby".
     On the 14th March 1408, there having happened a great difference between Sir William de Ryther and Sibilla his wife, he appeared before Henry Archbishop of York (then at the manor of Cawood) where he took corporal oath thenceforth to use her honestly and kindly observing certain articles (1) To do her no bodily harm or imprison her, but keep her in full freedom as a man of his degree ought to do with his wife, without doing or saying anything that may be reproof or villany to her person (2) To void Marion of Grindon out of his company and out of his children's company as long as the aforesaid Sibill lives, and to have nothing to do with the aforesaid Marion by way of sin (3) To find his wife and her maiden and her chamberer meat and drink reasonable for her estate. Witnessed by Richard Redmayne [Brother-in-law & co-occupier of Harewood Castle], Sir Henry Vavasour [manorial Lord], Henry Fitzhenry (Archbishop of York].
     Sir William Ryther was mentioned in a deed dated 1410 in Saleby, Yorkshire. In 1410 among the tenants of Thomas Colepepper, then lord of Saleby, was John de Southeby, filius Dom. William de Ryther, milit. In the previous year the same William de Ryther was fined 2d. for non-attendance at the Saleby Court Leet.
     Sir William Ryther and Sir William Ryther were mentioned in a deed dated 6 March 1415/16. On March 5 1415/6 Wm Ryther kt. senior and Wm Ryther kt. jr. witnessed a deed: By Richard Redemane, knight, and Robert Broun, chaplain to Brian de Stapilton, knight, of the manors of Querneby and Carleton by Snayth and lands and tenements in Farlyngton co. York, all of which the grantors had lately by the feoffment of the grantee. Witnesses William de Ryther, knight, the elder, William Ryther, knight, the younger, and others.
     5 September 1524: Commission to Ralph Grastock, Richard Redman, William Rither and Robert Roose, of Inghamthorpe, knights, and to John Ellerker, Guy Rocliff, William Moston and Thomas Lindleye, or any two or more of them, the four last named being of the quorum to make Inquisition in the county of Yorkshire as to lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, services, wardships, marriages & escheats alledged to have been concealed from the King within the said county.
     William died circa 1426 in Yorkshire. He was buried circa 1426 in Harewood, Yorkshire. The Ryther monument lies under the arch between the chancel and the south, or Gascoigne chapel. Each side has nine buttressed panels, five of which contain a small shield; the other four originally contained carved figures but these have all been lost. The effigies are in most respects the counterparts of those on the Redman tomb but with obvious differences in detail. Sir William's crest is the dragon's head of Ryther and his collar a plain broad band of SS. An unusual feature is the forepart of a small animal, possibly a hare, under each foot. Sir William Ryther's family came from Ryther Castle, between Selby and Tadcaster. Records show that the Ryther marriage had its difficulties and Sir William appears to have been a violent and tyrannical man; he died in about 1426 but Sybil survived him until 1440.
     Sir William Ryther was the subject of an Inquisition Post Mortem held in Yorkshire in 1430.

     Sir William Ryther was born circa 1250 in Ryther, Yorkshire. He was the son of William Ryther. Sir William Ryther witnessed deeds of title in Milford as Sir Wm de Ryther, [and] his son in February 1273/74.
     In 1278 he appears among the witnesses in a suit, at the assize held in 1278, concerning the right of free passage on the river between York & Boroughbridge, and of fishing free of toll, which the Earl of Cornwall had established.
He also witnesses the gift by Roger Saxton, rector of the church of Fishergate, of several parcels of land in Saxton, to the hospital of St Leonard, York. He is also mentioned as having held the manor of Cowthorpe as feoffee during the reign of Edward I.
     Sir William de Ryther was in many engagements at home and abroad, and was summoned to parliament in 1279 as a Baron of the Realm.
     Lucy de Ros married secondly Sir William Ryther circa 1280. He married, in or before 1280 Lucy, ?daughter of John de Ros, son of Robert, 1st Lord Ros of Helmsley. At the Inquisition Post Mortem for Robert Ryther (6 Hen VII) it is mentioned that he held the manor & advowson of Ryther, by virtue of gift made by John, son of Robert Roos, by way of fine & with the King's licence, to one William Ryther and Lucy his wife in tail male, with remainder to the right heirs of the said William ...
     Fine dated 1280: 28. York. Morrow of Hil. 8 Edw I. Before the same. Between John, son of Robert de Ros of Hamelak, quer., and William de Rither, deforc., of the manors of Rither, Schardecroft, Gyldhusum' and the advowson of Rither church. Covenant. John's right as of William's gift. John and his heirs to hold of the chief lords. William and his heirs to warrant. For a sore sparrowhawk.
This feoffment was the first stage of a settlement. The second fine as given by John took place very soon after, on February 2 1280.
54. York. Morrow of Cand. Before the same. Between William de Ryther, quer., and John de Ros, deforc., of the manors of Ryther, Scarthecroft and Gildehus' with the advowson of Ryther church. Covenant. John's right. William and Lucy his wife and the heirs of Lucy's body to hold of the chief lords with remainder to William and reversion after William's death to John and the heirs of his body with remainders to Alexander, John's brother, and the heirs of his body and to William's next heirs.

Rosie Bevan wrote: The two fines had a threefold purpose - feoffment, marriage jointure, and protection against wardship of the lands in case of a minority.
That Gildersdale was of the fee of Ros at the time of the settlement, there is no question - it is listed in Feudal Aids with Robert's holding as chief lord given in the past tense, meaning its tenure was recorded just after his decease in 1285. Its two carucates had descended to the Ros family via the Trussebuts, with William de Ros inheriting it on the death of his aunt Agatha in 1247. It is possible that John had been enfeoffed in this manor, but there are indications that Rithers were tenants long before it passed into Ros posession, and the marriage settlement shows that it was unlikely to have been Lucy's maritagium.
The settlement of the Ryther lands on Lucy and her issue is characteristic of a jointure, an increasingly preferred method of marrying off daughters without reducing the family estate by the end of the thirteenth century. A sum of money passed hands as the bride's marriage portion, and in return there was a settlement of the groom's lands on her for life. The jointure also protected the issue of the marriage from claims by other children of the husband from earlier or later marriages. Most importantly if the husband died leaving a widow and underage children, the lord did not have wardship of that land.
John de Ros must have been related to Lucy in some way. Usually the principals of a marriage jointure were the father or brother providing dowry, but in this case it is possible that being a secondary marriage it was only a small one, and with Lucy's youth, William Rither was more interested in her Audley dower. Chronology goes against Lucy being daughter of John, but she may certainly have been a younger daughter of Robert de Ros and Isabel D'Aubigny who were married around 1244. We would expect them to have had a daughter called Lucy, named after Robert's mother. At a guess it is possible that John and Alexander were clerics and did not expect to leave heirs. The reversion to them on the death of William in the event of lack of heirs would represent a refund of the marriage portion, with the lands ultimately passing to William's right heirs after their death.
As it happens, the Ryther lands did pass down William's direct line, so the fine clearly served its primary intent. Notably, while Scarcroft and Ryther descended with his heirs, there is no mention of Gildersdale in the 1491 inquisition for Robert Ryther, so it appears to have passed out of the family in the intervening 211 years.
     He held a knight's fee in the honour of Pontefract in 1284.
     He was Keeper of the peace, Yorks, 1287; and summoned that year to a military council at Gloucester.
     He is mentioned in deeds relating to Hornington from 1287-1303; his son William is also mentioned there 18 March 1301/2; by 1317 the lands are mentioned in the name of Sir Robert Ryther. He witnessed a deed at Hutton Magna (Hoton Longuylers), parish of Gilling, as Wm de Ryther kt in 1288.
     In 1289 he was assessor of subsidy for Yorkshire.
     The de Banco Rolls of 19 Edw I [1290] record an action of the Prior of Bolton against William de Ryther and others for hunting in the Prior's free warren at Wygedon and Brandon and taking hares.
     In 1291 he was a commissioner of oyer and terminer, and summoned for service in Scotland.
     A Chancery document dated 20 Nov 1293 (22 Edw I) for William de Rither and Lucy his wife grants land in Ryther to the Master and brethren of St Nicholas in York in exchange for land there, retaining the manor of Ryther.
     In 1293 a writ dated at Westminster re the Inquisition taken at York [30 Jan 1293/4] re William de Rither and Lucy his wife who assigned two acres of their meadow with the appurtenances in Rither to the Master and Brethren of the Hospital of St Nicholas, York in exchange for two acres of the said master and brethren. The last named two acres are held of the said William & Lucy in pure almoign, and are worth 6 s. a year. The two acres of meadow of the said Wm & Lucy are also worth 6 s. a year, and are held of Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, together with the manor of Rither, by knight's service; which manor with appurtenances, worth in all issues £40, remains to the said William and Lucy beyond the gift aforesaid, and is sufficient to do the customs and service due, etc.
     He was summoned to the Council upon the question of Gascony in June 1294. He bore arms: at the Battle of Falkirk 1298, and also at the siege of Carlaverock 1300, azure, 3 crescents or (F); Parly Roll, &c. See monumental effigy drawn in "Dictionary of Heraldry". Another William's arms are differenced with a label (5) gules (F) Arden & St George Rolls.
There was also a Sire Thomas Wither (sic) who bore at the battle of Boroughbridge 1322, argent, a fess between 3 crescents gules (F.) Jenyns' Ordinary. Also William Wither (sic) (H III Roll) bore, agent, 3 crescents gules (F) St George Roll. The similarity of arms and names suggest that these are his sons.
     In 1299 the King granted him licence of free warren in Ryther, Dunholme and Thornton, and in 1303 in Scarcroft in the parish of Thorner, Hornington and Gildersome.
In 28 Edw.I (1300), he had a grant of free warren in Ryther, Dunholme, and Thornton; in 32 Edw I (1304) also in Scarcroft, Horninton, and Gildersome.
     Baron Rythre by writ of summons dated 29 Dec 1299. In the 25th year of the reign of Edw I, Sir William de Rythre having taken part in the Scottish & French wars was summoned to parliament until 26th Aug 1307.
He was summoned to parliament 20 Dec 28 Edw I to 26 Aug 1 Edw II [1299-1307] ... In Jan 1299/1300 he was summoned to be at the Exchequer at York, to treat with the Council touching the affairs of the West Riding. In 1302 and later years he had grants of various custodies, one of which was in Ireland, where he went in 1303. He was appointed in 1306 to conduct the Bishops of St Andrews and Glasgow, Scottish prisoners, into England, as far as Nottingham.
     The accounts of the wardrobe of Edward I (1299) inform us that Dom. Will. de Rithre, banneret, received £67.13.0 for the wages of himself and his retinue, consisting of two knights and five esquires for the 14 July on which day his horses were valued, to the 29 Sep, when one of his knights, Dom. William de Beeston, returned, being 77 days, £50.15.0. And for himself, one knight and five esquires from the 28 Sep to 13 Oct on which day another of his knights returned, being 14 days £7.14.5; and for himself and his five esquires from 18 Oct to 3 Nov, 22 days £9.18.0.
     He served in the wars in 1299. His name is mentioned in the poem of the siege of Carlaverock (1299) amongst the knights present and there we have the first notice of his arms, which to be seen in Ryther church and in the old Minster at York. "William de Ridre was there, Who in a blue banner did bear, The Crescent of gold so fair". The crescent may suggest a connection with the crusades to the Holy Land.      
Sir William Ryther paid the Lay subsidy in 1301 in Ryther, YKS.
     Sir William Ryther and William Ryther were mentioned in a deed dated between 18 March 1301 and 1302 in Hornington, Yorkshire. Regarding the manor of.
     In 1309 he was patron of Ryther church - Will de Ryther mil. A Sir Wm de Ryther mentioned in 1250 (his father?).
     William died between August 1309 and March 1311/12. He was buried after August 1309 in Ryther, YKS. Ryther church contained two shields at the west end of the south aisle - de Ros (gules, 3 water bougets, argent) and Ryther. In the east window of the same aisle appear the arms of Ryther & Redman. He and his wife appear to be the subject of the table tomb effigies in Ryther church, a cross legged knight in chain armour, with pointed and ridged bascinet, and limbs protected with jambs or shin-plates, characteristic of the transition period of Edw II. His lady has the characteristic wimpole or gorget of the same period.
     None of his descendants was summoned to parliament.
He was presumably the descendant of the William son of Gilbert de Rie - more likely grandson than son ... He had younger sons Sir John, Piers, Nicholas & William.

     William Ryther (of Cawood) was born before 1830.
     William Ryther (of Cawood) married Maria Unknown (Ryther) before 1850.

     William Ryther of Haxey married Sarah Unknown (Ryther). William Ryther of Haxey was born before 1815 in Lincolnshire, England. William was present at Thomas Ryther's christening on 29 October 1834 in Haxey, Lincolnshire.

      William Rider Ryther was also known as Ryder in some records. He was christened on 20 March 1722/23 in York, Yorkshire. He was the son of Thomas Ryther.
     William died before 8 April 1723 in York, YKS. He was buried on 8 April 1723 in York, YKS.

     William Rither Ryther married Sarah Guisley on 15 March 1737/38 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire.
     William Rither Ryther married Mary Wade on 25 July 1739 in Knaresborough, YKS. William Rither Ryther was born before 1740 in Yorkshire, England.

     Capt William Ryder Ryther was the son of John Ryder and Bridget Parvin.

     Grandson of Sir Thomas Ryther of Lynstead in Kent and son of Thomas Ryther or Ryder of Mucklestone, Staffordshire (his mother was a Poole of Staffordshire). Hosiery ... Knighted by Elizabeth I. He inherited the manor and lordship of Leyton, Essex from his brother Edward who died in 1609. Died at Leyton on 30 Aug 1611 but the St Olave register dated 19 Nov 1611 gives Sir William Rider dying at Leyton ... departed this church.... [exact copy required], his will mentions Mucklestone where he was born.
     Rider [Ryder], Sir William (c.1544-1611), merchant and local politician, born about 1544 in Mucklestone, Staffordshire, was the grandson of Thomas Ryther of Lynstead in Kent and the son of Thomas Ryther, or Ryder, of Mucklestone; his mother also came from Staffordshire. He was apprenticed to Thomas Burdet, a member of the Haberdashers' Company, of which he became free in 1569. He was a dealer in luxury cloths, and kept a shop in the Pawn of the Royal Exchange, the stock of which was valued at £3267 in 1592. Like many Londoners who prospered (Rider was already among the top 5 per cent of citizens in terms of his wealth by 1582), his business activities diversified. He became involved in the customs, holding the post of collector of the customs inwards from 1603 until 1610. From 1608 he enjoyed the lease of the imposts on sea coals as a member of a syndicate with Sir Thomas Bludder, John Trevor, and Marmaduke Darrell, and in the last year of his life he farmed the imposition on sugars with his son-in-law Sir Thomas Lake. He also speculated in crown lands, for example, by participating in a syndicate for the purchase and resale of £60,000-worth of lands in 1609.

For the early part of his career Rider lived in the parish of St Christopher-le-Stocks, but he seems to have moved into St Stephen Walbrook in 1599, and spent an increasing amount of time in Stepney. In 1609, shortly before his death, he inherited the manor of Leyton Grange in Low Leyton, Essex, from his financially embarrassed nephew and former apprentice, Edward Rider. He owned additional property at Greenwich, at Eythorne, and at the Mote near Maidstone in Kent, and also leased a manor at Dunmowe in Essex from the bishop of London. After serving the round of parish offices (collector for the poor in 1575–6 and churchwarden in 1580–81), he was elected to the common council for Cheapside ward in 1582. He was also active in the affairs of his livery company, serving as master on four occasions, the first in 1591. He was elected to the court of aldermen on 8 July 1591, and served successively in the wards of Bridge Without (1591–5) and Cornhill (1595–1611). His term as sheriff came in 1591–2, and he filled the office of lord mayor in 1600–01. As mayor Rider was remembered as a zealous reformer of weights and measures, seeking to establish uniform measures for sea coals, and becoming entangled in a protracted conflict with those who weighed the city's coal.

The most testing time of Rider's period of office came on Sunday 8 February 1601, when he was called from the sermon at Paul's Cross to deal with the irruption into the City of the earl of Essex at the head of about 140 followers, many of them of high rank. Essex probably planned to take the City and use it as a bargaining counter to remove his enemies from influence about the queen, but the rumours that twenty-one of the twenty-five aldermen would support him proved unfounded. Rider's strategy seems to have been to detach the earl from his followers by getting him indoors, either in his house or in that of the sheriff, Sir Thomas Smythe, and thereby giving the loyalist forces time to organize the defence of Whitehall and the City. The weeks which followed the revolt were tense, and Rider's energies were directed to surveillance and the pursuit of libellers against the now still more firmly entrenched Cecilian regime. He received the knighthood customarily given to the lord mayor in the early summer of 1601. For all the sympathy that the London élite and its favoured preachers had felt for the forward foreign policy with which Essex was associated, there was no way in which they could conceive of politics outside the framework of loyalty to the queen.

Rider's religious position seems to have been that of a conformist protestant, and there is little reason to connect him with the godly. He rebuilt the chancel of Leyton church, where he was buried. His largest charities were directed to the area where he had grown up. To the poor of Mucklestone he arranged for an annuity payable from property in Birchin Lane, London, while the inhabitants of Market Drayton were the beneficiaries of an annuity of £10 per annum to support their school for poor men's children, ‘to thend they maie by their good teaching come to be putt forth apprentices and soe become good members in the Comon wealthe’ (PRO, PROB11/118, fol. 281). Rider's bequests to charities were not, however, particularly large for a man of his wealth, and the bulk of his fortune passed to his two coheirs. He died at Leyton in September 1611, a few months after his wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard Stone of Holme in Norfolk, whom he had married shortly before 1572. His funeral was celebrated on 19 November 1611 at St Olave, Hart Street, in the City. He was buried at Low Leyton church, where a monument to him was erected. The two daughters who survived him made good marriages—Mary (1575–1642) to Sir Thomas Lake in 1591 and Susanna (1577–1640) to the lawyer Thomas Caesar in 1593. On Rider's death the gossips noted that ‘he died a richer man than ever he was esteemed’, as Lake was allegedly the beneficiary through his wife of property valued at £20,000 (Letters of John Chamberlain, 1.316). Although it was Rider's intention to divide the property equally between his two daughters, they seem to have disputed the terms of the will.

Ian W. Archer
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Ian W. Archer, ‘Rider , Sir William (c.1544-1611)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24405, accessed 24 Sept 2005]
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. Sir William Ryder Ryther was born circa 1544 in Mucklestone, Staffordshire. He was the son of Thomas Ryther (Harrowby line) and Catherine Poole.
     Sir William Ryder Ryther married Elizabeth Stone. Was Lord Mayor or Sheriff of London He was mentioned as Sheriff of London [Vicecomes de London] in 1591 in the pedigree attested by James Ryther of Harewood.
     William died on 30 August 1611 in Leyton, Essex. He was buried on 19 November 1611 in St Olave, Hart St, London.
     His will was proved on 2 December 1614 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Sir William Rider, kt. alderman of London (another will with sentence 119 Lawe) dated Nov 1610 'of Mucklestone, where he was born.'
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